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This is a photo of Johann Jacob Funk and Susanna Nickolai Peters. They returned to Rosenthal to purchase a windmill in 1904. They are Katie Funk Wiebe's grandparents. In the portrait, Johann is sitting and Susanna is standing beside him. He is dressed in a formal suit and she in a formal dress with headgear.

This is a photo of the Franz and Katharina Janzen (nee Katharina Boldt) extended family in 1928 around the coffin of Katharina, who gave birth to 12 children. It was common practice to have a family picture taken at the funeral with the open casket of the departed loved one. The funeral banner announces: Wiedersehn! (We will see you again!). Katharina and Franz with their seven younger children were the ones Jacob Funk went looking for and found in 1921.

This is a copy of a photo showing families boarding a freight train car in preparation to leave Russia in the 1920s. About four families lived in one of these small freight cars for about two weeks en route to Riga, providing their own food along the way. Photograph in Gerhard Lohrenz, HERITAGE REMEMBERED: A Pictorial Survey of Mennonites in Prussia and Russia, revised and enlarged (Canadian Mennonite Bible College, 1977), 264.

Johann and Helena Wieler with children Johann, Lydia and Helena.

Caption: "A little Tadzhik girl, bright as a flower."

Used in CM 17-3-1. Caption: Many cities in Russia have acres & miles of new apartment housing, prefabricated & put up in haste. They contrast sharply with traditional, ornate buildings such as seen in 1994-14.1773.

A side view photo of a Mennonite refugee girl in the 1920s. She is possibly in her early teens and sits quietly holding a book. She is wearing a large, black head scarf and a long sleeved pullover.

This is a photo of a group of approximately 40 elementary age Russian Mennonite school children posing with their teacher who sits slightly to the right of the center of the picture. It was probably taken in the early 1900s. The children are organized into 5 rows. The boys are dressed in uniform- like outfits while the girls are wearing a variety of adorned dresses apparently based on personal taste. The adornments include frills, embroidery and jewelry. A smaller child wearing a bonnet stands on the left hand side of the photo. The group poses in front of the wall of a building. Five window panes can be seen in the wall of white washed bricks.

Hermann Enns b ca. 1850, d ca. 1920 with wife Elisabeth Braun d. 1935. This is a studio photo, mounted on cardboard. The couple are seated on chairs in a studio. Herman is wearing a suit with a long jacket, white shirt and a tie. He is holding a Bible in his left hand. Elisabeth is wearing a long black dress with a lacy front and a small head piece(Haube) Hermann was a farmer and a minister in Samojlowka, Montau, Russia. He was the son of Hermann Enns and Justina Quiring. Hermann and Elisabeth's children were Johann (E-25) Peter, Wilhlem, Hermann, Justina and Jakob. This is Generation 1 of the Hermann Enns Ancestry Display.

Johann Abram Dyck(1854) and wife Margaret Dyck (1859) with children: Back (l-r): Margaret, Johann and Sara. Front: twin girls Maria and Anna and parents. There are 2 empty chairs, one in front of each of the twins, also a foot stool at the front.

Peter has a white beard, vested suit, black bow, son of Peter Kornelius Froese *1828

Husband Peter Froese is seated with arm resting on table, bearded; his wife standing with arm resting on husband's shoulder.